his kidmutghur, at Lucknow; but the boy could not be found, and she returned home, praying that information might be sent to her should he be discovered.  Sanaollah, Janoo, and Ramzan Khan, are still at Lucknow, and before me have all three declared all the circumstances here stated to be strictly true.  The boy was altogether about five months with Sanaollah and his servants, from the time they got him; and he had been taken about four months and a half before.  The wolf must have had several litters of whelps during the six or seven years that the boy was with her.  Janoo further adds, that he, after a month or two, ventured to try a waist-band upon the boy, but he often tore it off in distress or anger.  After he had become reconciled to this, in about two months, he ventured to put on upon him a vest and a pair of trousers.  He had great difficulty in making him keep them on, with threats and occasional beatings.  He would disencumber himself of them whenever left alone, but put them on again in alarm when discovered; and to the last often injured or destroyed them by rubbing them against trees or posts, like a beast, when any part of his body itched.  This habit he could never break him of.

Rajah Hurdut Sewae, who is now in Lucknow on business, tells me (28th January, 1851) that the sowar brought the boy to Bondee, and there kept him for a short time, as long as he remained; but as soon as he went off, the boy came to him, and he kept him for three months; that he appeared to him to be twelve years of age; that he ate raw meat as long as he remained with him, with evident pleasure, whenever it was offered to him, but would not touch the bread and other dressed food put before him; that he went on all fours, but would stand and go awkwardly on two legs when threatened or made to do so; that he seemed to understand signs, but could not understand or utter a word; that he seldom attempted to bite any one, nor did he tear the clothes that he put upon him; that Sanaollah, the Cashmeeree merchant, used at that time to come to him often with shawls for sale, and must have taken the boy away with him, but he does not recollect having given the boy to him.  He says that he never himself sent any letter to Sanaollah with the mother of the boy, but his brother or some other relation of his may have written one for her.

It is remarkable that I can discover no well-established instance of a man who had been nurtured in a wolf’s den having been found.  There is, at Lucknow, an old man who was found in the Oude Tarae, when a lad, by the hut of an old hermit who had died.  He is supposed to have been taken from wolves by this old hermit.  The trooper who found him brought him to the King some forty years ago, and he has been ever since supported by the King comfortably.  He is still called the “wild man of the woods.”  He was one day sent to me at my request, and I talked with him.  His features indicate him to be of the Tharoo tribe, who are found only in that forest.